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“One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.”

Years Believe Looks I Can Sometimes Forever Complicated Drag Flash

Author:Frederick Wiseman

“A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.”

Men Process Difficult Situation Clear Determination Complicated Justify One Man Democratization

Author:Bidzina Ivanishvili

“Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.”

Fiction Break Complicated Tricks Breaking Down Elusive

Author:Ben Marcus

“What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.”

Needs Moments Complicated Sentences Melody Chords

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.”

Want Chance Complicated Meaningful Forbidden Chances Are Unthinkable Complication

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?”

Way Bigs Government Security Threat Complicated National Security Cant

Author:Bob Schieffer

“If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.”

Ifs May Easy Simple Space Emotion Our Lives Awareness Complicated Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.”

Littles Pay Millions Laughing Needed Lessons Cost Perception Complicated Zero Thank God Make Me Happy Back When Overrated

Author:India.Arie

“Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.”

Knows Feelings Dream Together Emotion Produce Complexes Obvious Complicated Glorious Prose Regions Do You Know Vivid Anthology Blazing Illuminating Hawthorne

Author:Chris Bachelder

“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”

Real Problem Seems Perfect Complicated Real Life Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Far Away

Author:Soman Chainani

“Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.”

Knows Feels Children Stories Sound Born Church Crosses Complicated Halls Concerts

Author:Nico Muhly

“I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.”

Littles Serious Goes On Complicated Casual Drifting Ambiguous Drifting Away

Author:Billy Collins

“Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.”

Mother Seeing Comfortable Complicated Our Society Great Mother

Author:Charlize Theron

“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”

Song Simple Type Standards Harder Raises Simplicity Complicated Bars Songwriting Songwriters Immersing Yourself

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.”

“Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.”

Simple Complicated

Author:Rapsody

“You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.”

Thinking Way Stills Sometimes Whole Happens Action Fighting Months Scene Directors Computer Shots Decided Complicated

Author:Paul Bettany

“By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.”

Sometimes Problem Complicated

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.”

Seems Sadness Sad Complicated Flats Bleakness

Author:Nick Hornby

“Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!”

Simple Greater Complicated Simple Things Greater Power Complicated Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.”

Needs Intelligent Complicated

Author:Arj Barker

“Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands ... It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.”

Book Found Difficult Simple Numbers Activity Claims Sells Complicated Command Corporate Features Guarantees Business Success Large Numbers

Book:Why Most Things Fail

Source: Why Most Things Fail

“Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.”

Simple Answers Wonder Offers Complexes Complicated Educated

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.”

Reason Problem Left Trouble Late Complicated Tennis Sixteen Arrivals Puberty Testicles

Author:Jonathan Ames

“I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.”

Way Writing I Can Helping Desire Natural Serious Jokes Complicated Narrative Truthful Natural Things

Author:Justin Simien

“I think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a lot of different ways but I feel like as long as you are consistent and fair with the audience they'll engage irrespective of how they self-identify. I think it just gets too complicated to track all those differences between demographics.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Long Different Self Differences Audience Fairs Track Complicated Different Ways Consistent Relatable Demographics

Author:Marc Webb

“What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.”

People Way Simple Style Complicated Simple Things Simple Ways Complicated Things

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.”

Way Humans Matter Hard Asks Understanding Simple Deals Study Complexes Affair Edges Complicated Simple Things Hard Questions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good. I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.”

Thinking Writing I Can Hands Might Song Sides Feminism Example Feminist Complicated Mature Both Sides Versus Pornography Satirical One Sided Senile

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.”

Way Long Has Beens Found Planets Long Time Evidence Logic Complicated Scientific Evidence

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.”

Want Bits Share Information Including Complicated Devices Multiple

Author:Bill Gates

“It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence.”

Greater Influence Effects Exercise Degrees Independent Complicated Consideration Mutual Engines Evident

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.”

Ifs Sound Mistake Harder Complicated Dragons Polite Etiquette

Book:Calling on Dragons

Source: Calling on Dragons

“It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.”

Hands Longing Complicated Killers Metaphysical Apes

Author:Simon Critchley

“It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.”

People Want Firsts Looks Play Moving Games Loses Pieces Stupid Masters Shapes Complicated Chess Knights Stupid People Checkers

Author:Courtney Love

“Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.”

People Men Hate Names Interest Path Cutting Higher Tools Difficulty Method Extraordinary Complicated Bars Opening Pursue Statistics Formidable Thickets

Author:Francis Galton

“I realised that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal.”

Goal Achieve Series Complicated Realised

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.”

Ifs Looks Humanity Individual Growing Tree Spread Complicated Connected Growing Things

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans Hard Human Beings Situation Complicated

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.”

“I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.”

Thinking Way Ideas Technology Negative Complexes Communicate Complicated Prominent Really Positive

Author:Jane Levy

“I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.”

Thinking World Way Form Term Television Building Materials Source Drama Unique Complicated Storytelling Dense

Author:Chris Albrecht

“There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.”

Ifs Feels Persons Energy Lost Hours Lines Talking Goes On Scene Cameras Sorry Complicated Unfair Garbage Exhausting Will To Live

Author:Dominic Cooper

“We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.”

Men Firsts Book Stories Used Break Week Complicated Instance Sat Lectures Monument Researchers Argo

Author:Grant Heslov

“Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of ways. In terms of as an artist, the way we could communicate as a family very clearly was through movies and through acting, and when things became complicated with all of our own personalities, that's where we are most clear. I think that's also where we are most brutal with each other as well.”

Thinking Way Wells Artist Term Acting Clear Personality Communicate Complicated Insecurity Brutal

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Keanu Reeves learned a lot, respecting the culture. I was surprised when I first met him. He knew a lot already and he learned a lot. And also he learned Japanese. It's incredible. On the set, switching between the Japanese and English, even for us, is very hard. It's complicated. But the first time Keanu spoke in Japanese it was a very important scene between us, and more than the dialogue's meaning, I was moved. His energy for the film, completely perfect Japanese pronunciation. It was moving, surprising, respecting.”

Firsts Important Hard Film Moving Culture Energy Perfect Mets Scene First Time Moved Incredibles Complicated Dialogue Spokes Surprising Switching Pronunciation

Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.”

Persons Long Art Matter Deals Duty Argument Complicated Hearing Guides Chains Reasoning Rhetoric Glances Deliberate

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.”

“The gospel of Jesus Christ has the answers to all of our problems. The gospel is not a secret. It is not complicated or hidden. It can unlock the door to true happiness. It is not someone's theory or proposition. It does not come from man at all. It springs from the pure and everlasting waters of the Creator of the universe, who knows truths we cannot even begin to comprehend. And with that knowledge, He has given us the gospel-a divine gift, the ultimate formula for happiness and success.”

“Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.”

Gay Aspect Complicated Just One Sleeves Being Gay Complicated Life

Author:Patricia Cornwell

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